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UNTTnn STATES VPATENT @Trueno CHARLES CRISTADORO, OF NFNV YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,458, dated November1,1887.

Application tiled December 23, 1886.

To @ZZ whom, it 'may concern.-

Beit known that l, CHARLES Guisranouo, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York, State ofNeW York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pads, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings.

This invention consists in certain features of construction, hereinafterspecified, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

I have herein shown and described my invention as adapted to be used byphysicians; still, as will hereinafter appear, it may bc Aadapted foruse in many different ways.

Referring to the drawings, Figure lis a perspective of a tabletconstructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a perspective indetail of one of the sections. Fig. 3 is a similar view of severalsections connected, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of a tablet adapted foruse in a dry-goods house.

A represents a cover, made of any suitable material, to which is securedby any suitable means a tabletsclamp, A.

B represents a section consisting of a series of leaves connected toeach other by any suitable device, in this instance an ordinary binding,B, (sce Fig. 2,) and cutaway, as at B, exposing to View (when severalofthe sections B are connected together to form a pad) thesubject-mattcr contained inthe following series of leaves or sections:l.Vhcn several of the sections are arranged as shown in Figs. l and 3,any suitable fastener, as at B, may bc employed to connect the seriesbefore being mounted within the cover, or, if desired, .the covering maybe omitted and the fastening Bis alone einployed. Any suitable devicefor securing the sections in the cover maybe used; butin this instance,tfor convenience, vI prefer the clamp A. (Shown in Fig. l.)

The leaves Vforming the sections or series of leaves B are perforated,as at B, s0 that they may be separated from the top portions thereofwithout the removal of the securing device. Taking, for instance, theforni shown in Fig. l, wherein my pad is adapted for the use ofphysicians, each series or section of leaves pertains to a differentdisease, and in this instance I have selected several ordinary dis-Serial No. 222,357. (No model.)

eases-such as fevers, chlorosis, rheumatism, constipation, &c.-and at apoint above the cut-away portion B2 the name of the disease to which theparticular leaf refers is printed, so that upon lifting the'covcr thesection relating to each disease is plainly visible, and the tablet maybe readily opened at that point. Taking, as an example, the irst leaf,which contains a list of edibles consistent for the paf tient havingfever, it will be seen that at the top of the detachable portion isprinted in plainwordsDietforfevers77 Belowthetitle follows a list ofedibles of which the patient may partake without danger of bad results.

The physician having a patient suffering with fever can detach one ot'the leaves and leave it with the nurse or patient by tearing it alongthe perforated line Bt.

As some diseases are more common than others, it very naturally occursthat some of the sections relating to the common diseases will beexhausted sooner than the remaining. It is therefore necessary that thesections relating to these diseases be replenished. To do this thetablet is slid from without the clamp A', the fastening B: bentupwardly,and the stubs left from the exhausted sections removed, a'nd a freshsection replaced in the same order as was its predecessor, it beingnecessary that they should be replaced in the saine order, by reason ofthe occurrence of the cut-away portions Bl being at different points ordistances from the lower edge in each section, in order that a View maybe obtained of all the several sections contained in the pad.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated another purpose of my invention, and one inwhich it is adapted for use in connection with a dry-goods house, and inlieu of the diseases mentioned articles of apparel, dry goods, andnotions are substituted. The operation of this adaptation is, that thesalesman when making a sale records it, with his name and the amount ofcash received and to be deducted, upon one of the leaves of the seriesrelating to that class of goods, and detaching the lower portion of theleai' turns it over to the cashier or bookkeeper, who also writes hisname and amount of cash above the perforation Bl upon the stub, so thatby referring each night or at the end of the week to the leaves theorder-clerk can see the exact amount of each class of goods on hand, andhe, knowing the amount previously# ordered, will be able to `judgeWhether or not that class of goods needs replenishing.

Various other uses of my invention will readily suggest themselves tocommercial and professional men, and I do not claim or limit myinvention to any particular printed matter employed therewith.

I am aware that a pad has been heretofore cut in steps at one edge toform an index to its contents; butin such case the entire pad was of buta single sectiom and I am also aware that legal blanks have been boundin pad form made up of a collection of various forms, sets of which weredivided by fly-leaves and separatelyindicated by an attached indexstripprojecting from a fly-leaf of saidsets; and I do not claim either as ofmy invention. In my construction each leaf of each section bears justabove the cut-away portion of its edge the title of the section, so thatremoval of a leaf does not remove the indicating-charactors of thesection, as would be the case were the pad merely indexed. y

Having described my invention and eration, what I claim isl A pad madeup of separate independent series of sections, each section having eachleaf thereof perforated for separate removal and cut away at the edge,and each leaf of each section bearing-above its cutaway portion a wordor Words indicating the subject-matter to which said leaf and sectionrefer, and each of the sections cut to such an extent as to expose thesubjects-matter of the succeeding sections of the pad, and all thesections removably bound for separate removal and replacenient,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.A

CHARLES CRISTADORO.

its op- W'itnesses:

MERRICH P. LAURENCE, J osEPH CRIsTADoRo.

